Word: nast
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...monkeys she had cages built in the house. She ate fish heads and roosters' combs served with special sauces, toured Europe with her own revue, walked the boulevards of Budapest with two swans on a leash. In Manhattan last week she attended the elaborate party which Publisher Conde Nast gave for Composer George Gershwin after the première of Porgy and Bess. Next night she went home to St. Louis to see her mother who used to be a washwoman...
...chemistry led him to the perfume business. Knowing U. S. socialites' awe of royalty, he was careful to see that every one of his packages was liberally sprinkled with crowns, with PRINCE MATCHABELLI in large type. He died six weeks ago in Manhattan, had seven Russian princes, Conde Nast and the Hearst Press's Cholly Knickerbocker among his honorary pall bearers. But he left no will and his next of kin is his brother, Ito Matchabelli, who still lives in Leningrad and who by U. S. law will share his estate with Prince Matchabelli's sister...
...allied, field when a "jury" of tailors queried by Associated Press picked him as the best-dressed man in the U. S. Mr. Loew has been cited for his sartorial splendor on numerous occasions but last week he stepped out ahead of such tailors' patrons as Publisher Conde Nast, Philadelphia's Edward Townsend Stotesbury, Senator David A. Reed, Douglas Fairbanks...
...Memorial Hall the University Rifle Club balanced off its wins and losses with a sweeping victory over Battery L of the 241st Coast Artillery. The score was 888-854 in a ten man match, in which ten shots were fired prone and ten off hand. Colonel Nathaniel C. Nast '07, of the National Guard, who sponsored the match, donated a supper of coffee and doughnuts to both teams after the firing was over. The high five men for Harvard were: George Matteson '36, 187, Parkman D. Howe '37, 182, Malcolm S. M. Watts '37, 179, William...
Born in Cleveland, Jerome Zerbe was expensively educated. When he arrived in Manhattan year ago he asked for a picture-taking job with the Conde Nast publications (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden, was told his work was good but he did not know "the right people." Thereupon he went out to enlarge the circle of his acquaintances. As a professional photographer he is kind. In manner his pictures approach the clandestine snapshots of candid cameramen with their high speed lenses, but Jerome Zerbe uses only a standard news photographer's camera with synchronized flash bulb. None of the celebrities...